Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

showmans-directory.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

263 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

424 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Showmans-directory.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 263 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

showmans-directory.co.uk performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.292

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

showmans-directory.co.uk

263 ms

www.showmans-directory.co.uk

365 ms

bootstrap.css

294 ms

base.css

226 ms

grid.css

223 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Showmans-directory.co.uk, 35% (28 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (473 ms) belongs to the original domain Showmans-directory.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 460.3 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Showmans-directory.co.uk main page is 2.6 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 16.2 kB
  • After compression 4.8 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.8 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 15.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Showman S Directory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 146.2 kB

  • Original 205.0 kB
  • After minification 176.3 kB
  • After compression 58.8 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 146.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 276.5 kB

  • Original 318.9 kB
  • After minification 250.5 kB
  • After compression 42.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Showmans-directory.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 276.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (44%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Showman S Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

showmans-directory.co.uk accessibility score

69

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

showmans-directory.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

showmans-directory.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Showmans-directory.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Showmans-directory.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Showman S Directory. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: